Swedish is Finland’s second official language, yet less than 6% of the population are native speakers. This percentage has declined by half over the last century, leaving only 300,000 Swedish-speaking ...

The use of English has expanded at higher education institutions in Finland, according to the latest language policy review by the Institute for the Languages of Finland (Kotus). The review considers ...

Officially, Sweden doesn’t keep a record of the languages its inhabitants speak. That fact was infuriating to Mikael Parkvall, a linguist at Stockholm University, so he decided to find out for himself ...

As the world becomes globalized, language-immersion education in our public schools is increasingly important. We need to teach our students about other cultures and languages as well as model ...

The Finnish language integrates immigrant pupils to the community. Senior University Lecturer Maria Ahlholm emphasises that teachers and pupils alike should receive stronger support in increasingly ...

Schools have "preparatory courses" in place to help immigrant students learn enough Finnish or Swedish to join regular classes. But these were set up for older kids. Until recently, there hasn't been ...

The purpose of this paper is to study very early retirement as an indicator for poor health, with focus on a comparison between the two language groups in Finland. Extensive longitudinal data are ...

Vörå (Finland) (AFP) – Comedy act KAJ, the favourite to win Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden, has shone a spotlight on Finland's small Swedish-speaking minority, little-known outside the ...